Thou shalt love the Lord thy God,62 and so on with the other precepts. Take for instance, the sharp and fiery horn of fornication by which he throws the incontinent; consider adultery, lying, avarice, theft, and all the others which are akin and related to these, which naturally flourish on those death-dealing heads. But if, with the help of Christ, you tear them out by the roots, you will receive the divine heads, adorned with the diadems taken from the Dragon. Now it is possible for us to determine
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